The Asian Angel (Japan, 2021) [NYAFF 2021]
Filmed entirely in South Korea, Yuya Ishii’s The Asian Angel charts the unanticipated coming together of two emotionally broken families, one Korean and the other...
They Say Nothing Stays the Same (Japan, 2019) [NYAFF 2020]
Troubled times require clarification, which often requires a troubled approach. Japanese cinema is not alien to attempts to make sense of trouble with trouble; of...
Pumpkin and Mayonnaise (Japan, 2017) [Japan Foundation Film Tour 2019]
Masanori Tominaga’s relationship drama Pumpin and Mayonnaise is a determinedly low-key affair that shows a fair amount of questionable behavior within its succinct 90 minute...
The White Girl (Hong Kong, 2017)
Following their first film collaboration Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous (2015), famed cinematographer Christopher Doyle and producer-director Jenny Suen Ming-lei resume their working relationship...
Princess Raccoon (Japan, 2005)
Popular thought dictates that the films of Seijun Suzuki are difficult, obtuse, and illogical works that exist in a very aestheticized universe. Watch a few...